Nether garment



Patented Apr. 15, 1890.

SPIELDOGH.

J NETHBR GARMBNT (No Model.)

me oms wenns co., Pnmuma. msnmomu, n4 c.

UNITED STATES PATENT. OEEICE.

JAOOBSPIELDOOII, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

AN ETH ER GARM ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,914, dated April15, 1890.

Application filed September 13, 1889 Serial No. 323,811. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: v

` Be itknown that I, JAcbB SPIELDocH, of the city of St. Louis, in theState of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inNether Garments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to devices by which, while eifecting a perfect itfor the crotch of nether garments, the usual cumbrous crossseam at thesummit of the crotch is avoided; and the invention consists in featuresof novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed outin the claims.

Figure I is a detail view showing the crotch of a nether garment withthe preferred form of my invention for-the centering seams of thecrotch. Fig. II is a detail View of the crotch ends 0f the quart-ersprevious to attachment; and Fig. III is a detail view of a modification,showin g the tongues both extending from the sections of one leg andquarter seamed to the sections of the other leg of the garment.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the front quarter or section ofthe right leg, and 2 the rear section of the same.

3 represents the front section of the left leg, and 4 the rear sectionof the same.

5 represents a tongue that projects from and is integral with one of thefront quarters or sections of the `garment and is secured to the edge ofthe cut-away 6 of its corresponding coattachable front section by theseam 7 8 represents a tongue that projects from and is integral With oneof the rear sections of the garment, and is secured to the edge of thecut-away 9 of its corresponding coattachable rear section by the seam10.

ll represents the longitudinal inside seam that runs lengthwise of thecrotch and legs of the garment, the front and .rear sections of whichare united together thereby; and 12 are the transverse seams thatusually cross the first-named scam at the apex of the crotch, providinga very cumbrous and inconvenient cross-seam in the said objectionableform.

To avoid the objectionable cross-seam in that location at the apex ofthe crotch, a seamless crotch has been heretofore devised by theinsertion of a tongue-piece at said crotch, but

with the twofold objections of a necessarily imperfect iit, (forthere-can be no adjustment in form in the center of the tongue itself,where it is most needed,) and also the seam passing all around saidtongue, besides making said part cumbrous, also binds against andprevents the accommodating shearing that would otherwise be provided bythe texture of the cloth, which is in my device in a great measureself-ad j usting to themovements of the wearer of the garment inwalking, no cross-seam barring the self-accommodating adjustment of` theparts in each movement of the wearer as he walks.

To avoid the objectionable features of the cumbrous cross-seam asusually constructed on the one hand and the misfit of the centralcrotch-tongue, with the disadvantage of its binding surrounding seam onthe other, I have devised my tongues, the base of which tongue in eachcase is respectively integral with one of the quarters or sections ofthe legs of the garment, and said tongue has a seam attachment to theedge of the cut-away of the corresponding front or rear section withwhich it is united, as the case may be. I much prefer to cut my tonguesas shown in Fig. II and attach them as shown in Fig. I, as that givesthe opportunity for an elastic shearing adjustment in. the texture ofthe cloth in both legs of the garment when the wearer is Walking,unbound by either the usual cross-seams or the surrounding seams of atongue; but said tongues may be cut,when desired, with said tongues bothintegral with the sections of one leg of the garment and both seamed tothe corresponding sections of the reverse leg of said garment, as shownin Fig. III. The crotch attachment shown in this modification in Fig.III onlypartially obviatcs the objectionable features alluded to in theusual cross-seam on the one hand, and the center tongue .which is seamedall around to the sections of the garment on the other, but does not ascompletely overcome said objectionable features as does my preferreddevice. (Shown in Figs. I and II.)

Ihave shown and described in my preferred form the tongues respectivelyintegral with the front right-leg section of the garment and with .therear left-leg` section of the same, and in each instance seamed to thecorresponding IOO section of the reverse leg; but l do not coni-ine ofthe leg portions Where cut away, substan- `15 tially as described.

2. A netlier garment having one portion of one leg at the crotch and oneportion of the other leg at the crotch each provided witli an integraltongue in line With the longitudinal 2o leg-seam, the remaining legportions being cut away opposite said tongues, and the latter beingsecured to the edges of the leg portions where cut away, substantiallyas described.

JACOB SPIELDOCH. In presence of- BENJN. A. KNIGHT, E. S. KNIGHT.

